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The SEC and ESPN on Thursday officially announced the "formation of the SEC Network, which is scheduled to launch in August 2014," according to David Paschall of the CHATTANOOGA TIMES FREE PRESS. The network will be "based in Charlotte and will televise 1,000 live sporting events each year, with 450 on the network and the other 550 distributed digitally." As many as "45 football games will be shown on the network, including three every Saturday." CBS will "continue to get the first pick of SEC football games each Saturday, and then a content board will make decisions on which games will be shown via ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and the SEC Network." CBS no longer will "have an exclusive window" from 3:30-7:00pm ET, "so the SEC Network will have ...